For the past decade, western countries are trying their best to change the mentalities and policies of middle eastern countries. They are open minded people with governments providing everything needed for their people. At least that’s the way they see it. Sex, relationships, alcohol, porn, ultimate democracy and rights are their norms. In the middle east it’s very hard to impose such mentalities.
In the middle east, many wars took place, many mass accommodations occurred, and religion is a very important part of the everyday life of a typical middle eastern person. Middle easterners follow their leaders blindfolded and see that they’re doing their best for the country. Few countries are run by “democracy”.
The west keeps sending troops and creating wars in the middle east in the name of “change”. But the big question is if middle easterners can accept this change. I think through the past decades, if not centuries, we showed that we don’t like to change our norms. Each country or region have different believes , cultures and traditions from the rest. Why to impose their way of life on us. Many of us are happy the way things are and others support this change.
Personally, I am against this change because if we want to change, it will happen from within and we don’t like anyone to force us to change in any way possible or the results will be disastrous . let’s take Iraq for example; they were very limited people with simple lives, regardless of the hardship of their previous leader. When the US and other troops created the war in the name of “eliminating their nuclear reactors” to take control of the incredible amount of petrol they had, the results were very bad they’re almost irreversible. They changed everything so suddenly that the Iraqi people couldn’t handle and reacted aggressively towards this change.
Lebanon is always an example of westernized mentality set from the west to other middle eastern countries forgetting the Lebanese constant struggle from within. We middle eastern are born and raised under our conditions and this is very hard to change. Premarital sex isn’t normal, relationships aren’t as accepted and normal as in the west, alcohol is against religious beliefs, democracy isn’t actually the best of ways to control and maintain the middle eastern population (look at Lebanon), and many other things are normal in the west but very wrong in the middle east.
The message I am trying to deliver is that every person, family, community, city, country, region and continent have different ideals. No one has the right to expect the other to act or be the same. Our differences define who we are.
